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Hi. My name is Spencer Mangum and I arrange hymns on the piano in my spare time. These songs are completely free and are here for you. The only thing I get out of doing this is the hope that other people will enjoy it. As I am LDS (aka mormon), a number of my arrangements are specific to my faith. However, I also have a number of arrangements of other traditional hymns that are common among most Christian denominations. If you like what you find here, please share this website with your friends. Also, please leave comments. It's the only way I know if you enjoy it or not.

Christmas Hymn Arrangement:

Other:

We Thank thee O God for a Prophet

This hymn has been part of the LDS Hymnal since 1863. The text of this hymn was written by an English Mormon convert, William Fowler (1830-1865), and the music by Caroline Norton (1808-ca. 1877). Fowler wrote the hymn sometime between the age of 30-33, and died at the age of 35. Caroline Norton was not LDS nor was she even aware in her lifetime that Fowler had chosen her tune to carry his words (1). However, as no other poet ever adopted this tune to other words, this melody has become today unique to the LDS faith. Fowler's words celebrate that God has called modern prophets (just as he did in biblical times) through whom Jesus Christ's gospel is taught. The original hymn words and music in SATB format is available here.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!I needed this song to go with my lesson this morning and I found it here!!! Within the first 10 seconds of the song I knew this was the one I needed!!! I can't express the feeling of how strong the spirit is with this song!!! Thanks you SO MUCH again! You are truly AMAZING at what you do!!!

Wow! My sister and I heard this arrangement on the commercial advertisement for Thomas S. Monson's biography, and immediately went to google searching for it.What an amazing arrangement, as well as for all of your pieces. We've printed off your available sheet music and are learning them right now! (Well, my sister is. I am just a beginner.)Thank you for sharing! I will be adding your button to my personal blog and will be visiting often in hopes for updated sheet music...or a possible album! :)Thank you so much for sharing your talent! It is truly beautiful.

Spencer, oh my goodness, you have SUCH a talent.I'm with everyone else.. I'm jumping on the "sheet music request" wagon. ;)And can I just say THANK YOU! for your generosity in sharing these treasures with the world in such a selfless way.

When I initially commented I clicked the "Notify me when new comments are added" checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Thanks!

This arrangement is truly one of my favorites. Me and my friend arranged our own Joseph smith medley and concluded with this hymn. We played at a Tri-Stake Fireside and it brought the spirit to everyone!

Thank you so much for all this beautiful music!!! I have downloaded saved some of the more reverent sheet music. I currently play in primary and am sure this music will help invite the spirit. Thank You Thank You Thank You

Funny you would ask about playing this arrangement in Sacrament Meeting: I have actually never played this arrangement in Sacrament meeting am undecided if I would if the opportunity arose. Regardless, I'm sure whatever you decide will be fine.

You are AMAZING!!!!! My daughter and I just found your site and WOW! You take our breath away. I think we have copied every piece and my daughter just can't wait to play them. Thank you so much for sharing your magnificent talents with all of us.

You are AMAZING!!!!! My daughter and I just found your site and WOW! You take our breath away. I think we have copied every piece and my daughter just can't wait to play them. Thank you so much for sharing your magnificent talents with all of us.

Im so excited to find your blog!! I have been searching for arranged music for so long! these pieces are so beautiful and I definitely will be having my choir sing them! thanks you so much for sharing your talent!!

This is such a great arrangement! Have you ever considered doing a medley of "We Thank thee O God for a Prophet" and "If You Could Hie to Kolob"? I think they would go well together, especially with this arrangement (this arrangement is what made me think of that combination).

Wow... I am so grateful that you've shared your talent with everyone. Also being a college student, I very much appreciate the sacrifice you've made, making these songs available for free. Thank you so much. I love your arrangements; they're my favorite renditions of hymns, and I can play them without feeling weird in my nonmember house :)

My S.S. Gospel Doctrine lesson is #37 "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet". I LOVE your arrangement, have (gratefully) downloaded your recording to my laptop and will play this as an opener to my lesson, with your name on the chalk board. THANK you for contributing to our Sunday School class. Cole Potter, Seattle.

Where am I Downloading these songs from?

Google has since discontinued google pages but still continues to service already existing pages, hence why I needed to turn to media fire to host my newer hymn arrangements.

Media fire is an established company and a very safe place to download my music from, however, I apologize in advance for the pop-ups and slow download times. I have a free account with media fire, hence advertising pop-ups are the only way they can make money from hosting my music.

Google pages limits the number of downloads during a specified time, so if you receive a message indicating that the bandwidth has been exceeded, try downloading from media fire instead. (The link at the top of the page under "Get the album" will lead you to where you can download all of my songs from media fire.)

Are you going to do more arrangements? Where's the sheet music for some of your arrangements??

I have a number of new arrangements I am currently working on, however, it takes a lot of time to get the arrangement recorded and even more time to get the arrangement written out in sheet music form. (Which is why some of my recorded arrangements don't have accompanying sheet music yet.)

While ideally I would be getting to these arrangements soon, I am currently in a medical residency which significantly limits my spare time to devote to my music. If and when I finish new recordings or sheet music, I will be adding them to this page.

To contact me directly or to notify me of any problems with this site, please email me at:

HymnArrangements@gmail.com

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